The Winter of 2016 has been pretty mild here in the Pacific Northwest. No snow anywhere in our elevation… second Winter in a row.
This is an “abstract” image from another February, that I just re-worked. The original scene was recorded in our back yard.
(To all the people in the Midwest and Northeast: [...]

It was one of those end-of-the-year kind of days in the interior Pacific Northwest (the — usually — dry side of the Cascade range). The snow had just stopped and the sun was trying to break through the heavy overcast but all it managed to do was speed up the melting process and form [...]

Two weeks ago I saw the crocus flowers, a day after some late Winter snow…
Yesterday, “the second day of Spring,” the snow returned and the red currant twigs and blooms got heavily burdened… The seasons hadn’t quite made up their minds which way to go yet